Radio, bucket, and a bicycle - improving healthcare provision in Nigeria
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by ndubuisi edeogaI have been reading through Sonia Shah’s book “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years”. She discussed…
Social networks and health....are we missing a trick?.
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by ndubuisi edeogaDespite all the best efforts of modern medicine, the cost of medical care keeps rising, for those who can afford…
18 Months...
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by ndubuisi edeogaEighteen months. That is the average duration of Health ministers tenures in Africa. This is according to Dr Nigel Crisp…
The choices we make
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by ndubuisi edeoga ‘Tis the season of new year resolutions, when we make and un-make even more promises to ourselves and to…
No Water No MDG !
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by ndubuisi edoga We know Nigeria and many other African nations cannot achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Goal 1: Eradicate extreme…
Bring Back the Dispensaries !!
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by ndubuisis edeoga Growing up in rural Nigeria, I remember one incident vividly, because I still have the scars. My parents were…
………..WHO AFRO 59th session and a few more resolutions
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by ndubuisi edeoga Four resolutions aimed at scaling up action in areas deemed key to improving the health situation on the African…
Road safety: the new immunization?
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by ndubuisi edeoga The jury is out; with the World Health Organizations (WHO) recent, first ever report on worldwide road safety shows…
Who takes care of our doctors?
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by ndubuisi edeoga We are happy about all the positive posturing by the new minister of Health. We are happy about his…
Some Lives are more valuable than others…
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by ndubuisi edeoga Eric Arthur Blair, some of you would know him as “George Orwell” said it years ago in his famous…
Pfizer settles Nigeria Trovan law suit
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The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has reached an out of court settlement in the suit over the use of Trovan in a meningitis…
What is the "cost" of a life in Nigeria
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by ndubisi edeoga There they go again. I read in the papers that 4 teaching hospitals were slated for renovation….again. The last…
HIV access to treatment and prayer houses
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It was a busy afternoon when the text arrived from my colleague whom I had met working on HIV in the UK…
...referred to India
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by ndubuisi edeoga It started with American companies; the quintessential capitalists outsourcing their call centers to India where call center operators earn…